Sunday, February 6, 2011

People break up all the time, but today you have more to be worried about than in the pre-Google days. A woman decided to plaster pictures of her ex on the Internet, with her own nasty captions added. The boy's mother has petitioned
Google to have the images removed, but you can still find them with a Google search. Cry Baby has blurred the eyes in the screen grab from the search results above to protect this innocent.

"My minor son's ex-girlfriend took a copyrighted picture of him (we own copyright) and uploaded it more than 60 times to a website. On each image she wrote slanderous, defamatory and pornographic captions. The webmaster of the site states he removed the images 6 weeks ago, but Google Search still shows all the images. My son is so stressed out and embarrassed and we've done everything we can to get images off of Google including URL removal tool, a letter to Google Legal with all the URLs because of copyright infringement, and nothing has worked!"

According to the latest New Yorker (via Gawker.com) members of the FBI task force on human trafficking have been investigating the Church of Scientology for human trafficking. Director-writer Paul Haggis – and ex-Scientologist – is profiled in the article. It contains many revelations about the religion the most startling being allegations of abuse by Scientology's leader David Miscavige and allegations of enslavement of members of Scientology's religious order. This advancer comes from Gawker.com.Read more here.

The Russian donkey that garnered world sympathy as it brayed in terror while parasailing has died. Komsomolskaya Pravda has reported the 18-year-old female donkey, named Anapka, died of heart trouble after becoming ill in December. Anapka was sent parasailing over Russian beach in a promotional stunt. Her final months were spent in an animal sanctuary where the Pravda said she lived in luxury, eating fresh fruit and vegetables, getting massages and even spending time in a solarium

In a bizarre set of short films – and I mean two minute short – Isabella Rossellini looks at the sex lives of animals including this one about ducks. The series is called Seduce me. 58-year-old Rossellini is an actress, model and ex-wife of Martin Scorsese best known for Blue Velvet, Fearless and Death Becomes Her. Rossellini says she is trying to amuse us. We are amused.